[U-Boot-Users] Question on pre-loader to U-Boot

Anders Larsen alarsen at rea.de
Fri Oct 14 14:24:51 CEST 2005


"Zhang, Chris (Ex CH01)" <Chris.Zhang at honeywell.com> schrieb am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 um 10:18 +0100:
>my problem To make U-Boot a 2nd stage boot loader, I mean a seperate boot
>loader (stage #1) loader U-Boot from flash into SDRAM.

Well, in your first posting you said you were using the Atmel
AT91RM9200DK board, and that it already boots the way you described?
What is it that you want to change?
>
>Since it mainly concerns with the linker, no source code need modification
>if it use no linker script defined staff. In this case, if U-Boot do not use
>the TEXT_BASE in source code, there will be no change to the source code.
>That's my idea.

TEXT_BASE is used in several places in the source tree;
for starters, see
	cpu/arm920t/at91rm9200/lowlevel_init.S and
	cpu/arm920t/start.S

Cheers
 Anders





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